Moments after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced he would relinquish his position as leader of the Senate Republicans, a new search term began to trend on X: “Good riddance.” This might be because the tenure of McConnell, 82, was dominated by two leading passions that the New Republic argued Wednesday “both sucked for America.” “As Senate leader, McConnell had two main objectives in the role,” writes Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani. “First, he wanted to completely rewrite campaign finance laws. Second, he wanted to stack the courts with conservative reactionaries.” To that end, McConnell blocked Me…